Objection!

Publication date: 1992

Item Size: 722.9K

Developed by
TransMedia Productions, Inc.
Platform
DOS
Published by
TransMedia Productions, Inc.
Released
1992

Genre
Simulation
Gameplay
Mental training
Perspective
1st-person

Description

In this legal simulation, the player is in charge of a defense attorney in a criminal trial, mounting relevant objections against the prosecution's badgering of a series of key witnesses toward issuing skewed testimony in a case against your defendant, accused of murdering one Sandra Stiff, a glamourous Beverly Hills heiress. It is not enough to know when one may mount an objection, but specifically which from eleven different categories (from argumentative to hearsay to immaterial. Once in a while a legitimate question comes through and the player still needs to identify it as a proper question!)

This game has since been re-made for Windows with enhanced graphics and citation from case law.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry

Addeddate: 2016-03-14 17:22:30

Emulator: dosbox

Emulator_ext: zip

Emulator_start: Objectio/OBJECT.EXE

Identifier: msdos_Objection_1992

Mobygames: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/objection

Mobygames_developed_by: TransMedia Productions, Inc.

Mobygames_gameplay: Mental training

Mobygames_genre: Simulation

Mobygames_perspective: 1st-person

Mobygames_platform: DOS

Mobygames_published_by: TransMedia Productions, Inc.

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Reviews (3)

Reviewer: MyDarling - - January 15, 2021
Subject: Absurdly difficult but super addictive

As somebody who has had some law education and participated in a Mock Trial league for, about five years, placing with some of the top schools, I can confidently ...

Reviewer: TheFlep - - May 8, 2019
Subject: Key bindings

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Reviewer: becausegoodbye - - April 24, 2019
Subject: IF YOU'RE CONFUSED ABOUT THE HEARSAY EXCEPTIONS:

I adore this game. It's addictive, funny, and absurdly difficult, which is just my kind of thing. BUT -- to even stand a chance of getting all the way ... to the end, you need to know not only the 11 standard objections (which the game tells you in the start screen), but also the 9 different types of Hearsay Exceptions, which the game rather cruelly *doesn't* tell you about. To save you the hassle of having to figure them out by brute-force trial-and-error (like I did), here's the key I worked out:
1 - 'Former Testimony'
2 - 'Past Recollection Recorded'
3 - 'Declaration Against Interest'
4 - 'Admission or Confession'
5 - 'Prior Inconsistent Statement'
6 - 'Mental or Physical Condition'
7 - 'Dying Declaration'
8 - 'Spontaneous Declaration'
9 - 'Reputation'
When you get a question that's one of these Hearsay Exceptions, hit 'q' to indicate it being a proper question. It'll then prompt you that it's a Hearsay Exception, and ask you which kind. You then hit the number key that corresponds to the correct type of exception. Hope that helps! It's still wildly difficult to get all the way to the end and discover the true identity of the killer, but at least with the Hearsay Exceptions it's *possible*.
I genuinely love this game. I came across it somewhere on the internet when I was 12, and got really addicted to its combination of silliness and seriousness, of twitchy gameplay and legal reading comprehension. I never had any idea that it was state-accredited as an educational tool for law-schools; I just thought it was really fun! It was the first game I ever came across with such sophisticated textual randomisation (i.e. the details of the murder being different each time), and I kept being compelled to give it another try. I never finished it as a kid -- those Hearsay Exceptions were the death of me -- but coming back to it as an adult, it felt wonderful to finally be able to beat it all the way to the end. Could not recommend the experience more highly.
"No known player, lawyer or otherwise, is expected to reach this level of play. There is now but one question to answer:
NAME KILLER?"

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